Bandaranaike International Airport CMB / VCBI

Primary ground handler at Bandaranaike International Airport, serving over 45 regular and ad-hoc customer airlines under IATA's Standard Ground Handling Agreement (Jan 2008); ramp, passenger, baggage, load control and station supervision, per srilankan.com's Ground Handling corporate-profile page (confirmed directly; airline count corrected from the draft's "24-32" to the site's stated "over 45").

States on its own site that it holds a monopoly on aviation fuel handling in Sri Lanka and provides round-the-clock hydrant and refueler-truck (over-wing/under-wing) into-plane fuelling at BIA, meeting AFQRJOS/ASTM specs for commercial, corporate and designated military aircraft, per ceypetco.gov.lk (confirmed directly). Note this is Ceypetco's own positioning rather than a legally exclusive status, since Cannel (Private) Ltd is independently licensed to supply jet fuel at BIA as well.

Sri Lanka's first private aviation-fuel company; holds its own tank storage inside Bandaranaike International Airport under an exclusive lease and offers into-plane jet-fuel supply under a full aviation-fuel licence covering all Sri Lankan airports, per cannelfuel.com (confirmed directly).

Transit/daily/weekly servicing, technical log and Certificate-of-Release-to-Service issuance, troubleshooting and segmented A-checks at BIA, with a 24/7 AOG desk; "aircraft maintenance" is confirmed directly as an SGHA service line on SriLankan's spectrum-of-services page, though the detailed fleet/check breakdown could not be re-confirmed from the JS-rendered MRO subpage.

Provides line maintenance/technical handling at Colombo (BIA); CAS's own site confirms Colombo (BIA) as its line-maintenance location and Koggala as its separate base-maintenance/hangar site, per ceylonaero.com (confirmed directly).

SriLankan Airlines Engineering is a well-established EASA Part-145 MRO operator running a base-maintenance hangar at BIA (A/C-checks, engine and landing-gear changes, structural mods, NDT on A320/A321/A330 families); the specific ~8,000 sqm / ~400-staff figures in the draft could not be re-confirmed from open sources.

Sole airline flight kitchen at BIA with a 25,000-meal/day capacity, supplying 22 airline clients including Emirates, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines and KLM (about 7.6 million meals/year across ~37,700 flights), per srilankancatering.com (confirmed directly; airline count corrected from the draft's "~13" to the site's stated 22, and the airline examples updated to match).

"Aircraft servicing and cleaning" is confirmed directly as one of SriLankan Ground Handling's SGHA service lines at BIA, per srilankan.com/ground-handling/services/spectrum-of-services.htm.

As the primary ramp/load-control/ULD handler at BIA it necessarily operates its own ground-support-equipment fleet (tugs, baggage tractors, boarding steps, loading equipment); the draft's specific 2024 GSE-upgrade press citation (Daily FT/NewsWire/The Island) could not be independently confirmed and has been dropped rather than restated as fact.

Operates BIA's dedicated Cargo Terminal (separate from the passenger terminals) as SriLankan's cargo/freight handling arm; "cargo and mail handling (on-/off-airport)" is confirmed directly as an SGHA line on SriLankan's spectrum-of-services page, but srilankancargo.com did not return readable content, so the October-2009 opening date and 200,000-tonnes/year figure could not be re-confirmed from open sources.

SriLankan's Group Aviation Security Division (operating since 1979) provides aircraft security search, access control, passenger/hold-baggage/cargo screening, security escorts of air-cargo and security flight observers at BIA, with a named 24/7 duty-manager mailbox (•••), per srilankan.com/ground-handling/business-activities/security.htm (confirmed directly).

State operator of BIA, understood to hold aviation-security regulatory/oversight responsibilities for Sri Lanka's civil airports, overlapping with SriLankan's contracted security division. Both airport.lk and caa.lk returned certificate errors in this verification pass, so the specific $331,220 X-ray-upgrade figure and a direct AASL security contact line remain unconfirmed rather than verified fact.

"Surface transport of passengers and crews" is confirmed directly as one of SriLankan Ground Handling's SGHA services at BIA, per srilankan.com's spectrum-of-services page.

Trip-support/executive ground-handling coordinator at BIA offering flight-permit and overflight/landing coordination, AOG operational support (spare-parts clearance, engineering access, customs facilitation), FBO-style VIP/passenger handling, and coordination of GSE, refuelling, catering, cleaning and crew/passenger handling through established airport suppliers, per cmbjetservices.com (confirmed directly, including both phone numbers).

Airport-area hotel on Negombo Road, Seeduwa (~7 km / 15 min from BIA); ramadakatunayake.com confirms the airport-adjacent positioning but markets generally to "business and leisure travelers" rather than explicitly to airline crews, so a formal airline crew-accommodation contract remains unconfirmed. Contact email corrected from the draft's unverified "reservations@" to the site's stated "•••".